mood swings?

Hi all,
i have extreme mood swing daily. i can wake up feeling really happy and ready for life, and the next few hours i feel really depressed and tearful with absolutely NO REASON to feel so.
Do these mood swings that i have just described sound characteristic of BPD mood swings?
thank you

note: i am not asking for a diagnosis, just generally what you think/have experienced

For me, and my BPD symptoms, I wake up feeling fine, then some perceived slight or negative comment can sink me really fast. It doesn't happen on its own, but its not hard for me to find something to get upset and pissed off and depressed about.

There is an actor, a mechanism which causes these things, they don't happen on their own. My intuition tells me maybe its more a BiPD things as people with Borderline tend to be more reactive to others and their environment.

*TW*

It's funny (Woody Allen/strange funny). I'd like to say it happens with absolutely no reason, but that's not accurate; my therapist taught me that. If you chain it back, you can usually figure out the why, even if the final straw was something minute.

I find that quite often there will be a number of vulnerability factors (VF's) at play that don't seem to be doing anything. Then one, almost imperceptible trigger occurs and everything instantly crumbles. Of course, I rarely realize this at the time - most often, it's in retrospect that I realize "oh yeah, this happened and that happened and then that tiny thing finally set me off."

As an example, yesterday I had a great day, but by nighttime I found myself in a horribly self-destructive, almost suicidal mood. I wasn't quite sure why at the time, but then it clicked.

1. I haven't had any anti-depressant meds in a few days (combination of my fault and pharmacy's fault).
2. I had the impending stress of knowing I'd see my crash photos today, after seven years.
3. I'm going to be giving my termination notice soon, as I'm going back to school. Admittedly, I'm very afraid about being without full-time work (& said money), as well as the expected fears of being a total failure.
4. I was trying to respond to a post where I was about to admit an irrational fear and also come to terms with the fact that I will soon be losing my therapist, whom is effectively a lifeline for me.

I won't say I'm feeling much better today, but it explained why I suddenly sank into such a deep depression after trying to reply to one post (that I never did end up posting the reply to, as of yet).

So NO reason? No. It may seem like no reason, but there is one, and probably a bunch. You just need to figure out what it is.

To answer your question though, yes, sudden and extreme mood swings over very minor things are definitely common among Borderlines. Go big or go home.

This comment was helpful to me.

Looking for reasons for feeling bad. what happened? What is happening? What do i need ?

i do not know if is bpd or maybe not at all. but for me it doesn't feel without reason. maybe others can't see the reason but i can.maybe because i am more introverted and introspect.
sometimes when i notice others with bpd i can see the reason,is just a non wouldn't react so much or care.
or other times about me is like forgetting and remembering despair. like it is always there but i forget it for a while but then i remember it.
i do not know if that is a mood swing ,it doesn't feel like it

Julia by "remembering despair, then forgetting"? Do you mean bad memories of the past? If so this happens a lot to me. I think it is a mood swing as it's affecting your mood.

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I experience loads of mood swings throughout the day, I can be positive one moment then feeling like there is no hope :/

no i mean i have this feeling of void and despair always inside me.and sometimes i forget it but because of some irrelevant trigger or randomly i feel it again /remember it as feeling. and sometimes is unbearable but sometimes less intense.
my anger doesn’t last long also.
i mean i can laugh now but later remember the despair .like i forgot the intensity sometimes.
anyway i do not think my mood swings effect my life so is not bpd.except the fact that i suffer like there is no reason to live

I had to start paying attention to notice but in my case there's always a reason for my mood swings =/ It might not be a good reason though.

Mood swings...gotta love em!! I can go from my baseline to the pits of despair and back again fairly rapidly. It was getting so bad that whatever seemed to trigger me (and most of the time there always is a trigger) would leave me in a crying spell for who knows how long.

Although for me there always seems to be reasons behind my mood swings, I will admit there are occasions where I don't seem to find any. These are the situations that dumbfound me.

What I will say is that my pdoc has upped one of my medications by quite a bit and it seems to be helping. There have been no more in depth crying spells (at least for now), although I still need to work on my bursts of anger. Again...meds alone don't do the trick but therapy is also helping.